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1.311 1 E1111,41, PARLIALIIEN:II.. HOUSE OF PEERS..t t ! , t TUKcDAY, AdAIY g4;g: The Honourable Henry' Erskiiieeentiiined to be heard in reply on the liox6drigh . •Appeal.. - --To be further heard to-inorro , m, at the esuttl'har: The Honse then proceeded to Ititwat'd"the Bills on t he table.. Un the motion' fOr.the second reiiding Of the Bill to abolish certain Fees lher4Onstorn-House of 84c. •p?, ~,‘ Lord LAUDBEIOALE:'roe to bbjeet 'to the Bill, as contrary .to one of.the . standing arLia* the House. :rite Bill xlas : a Money B U bOtithkewise contained (.;:illie* of regulation, and -hatt'', matters.' connected win it which the. standing orderibi. :the House, to which hq 011tukd (No 4 did.notoperntiit to be so l olended and confbunded, . Their. Lordships "must 'have observed, that r it was dailytgrowing r into a cus .to overlook, or totally to..disregard the standing o7;ici.s of the House., This - Ii :could out byt con sider as a new abuse.' He felt it:therefore his duty t:• 611 their lordships' attention tb it, and in that should! oppose the ~second reading of this fl 1l in theTntention that it should be afterwards iv. d 11/0,6:1?.5V.11tY said, that a distindion should Il tak:: , ti between 'What 'ere called the Standing (..)de , ot the louse; some of them miglit lae con ai imperative, others only as admonitory, ell distinainn Was admitted on a late occasion (the cii,cuss:ott of the Order; in Council); and he thought the simdFdtstinaions should be admitted in• the' pre: s!hit case. The regulations proposed in 'this+, Bill were intimately, conneeted with the main Objeat.of time Bill, and did not cnnsEtilte (what the Standing Order provided against) matter different from, and foreign to the sobstoce of. the Bill, - He therefore not conceive the:present to be a case in which the. ltter, or spirit of the Standing Order was' in ft;ined, Lard LALTI;EIIDA LE could notlyut , admire the Noble S, , - etavv's(dexterity at distinctions.; but. it suckdis. tt;ciions Were to be adMitted,' they' mos( 'entirely a ,v;,3 , the, standing orde; . s,, and render them a HLTANT) lli iiSlt3d ofitllte saint! . 'objections 35 by bizt Noble Friebel,(L4orti. Lauderdale). 1,01113 CIIANCELIMR acituAd. , d . that there"utre Sw.): clitm‘sAu, the Bill which .-..seerrakd to.interfero th e 6 1;',iiidit ) older ha it woillaliej for their liardThips" discretion to decide whether the interte rrnce was such its to °AI ,for the, rt;rect;ori of the Ii;1.. ,* Solite further convetsatiou ensued between Lord.; 1 - lAktlcEsol./HY, :111;1 ILJUAN!), LIS (0 tllO lilu kd thequeitiou, !Aunt:R- D.\t.i n..,..;•itiveu the second readin 91 the 13d1, with i!ttentioli of after Wards 'utuvitt , ,l th:tt it he re . The gitejtion Was then put, that the Bill now read a second time; which was - agreed to' without division. cATitoLtc PETITION.' Lard ITOLLAN b thought it might be proper in the 41x4:41cctapt hifi Noble Friend (Lord Grenville), who t)t a ITIOCIOn of importance for 141- thdt, it 'vv;is not the intehtion of that 2 , Z;),1:.: Lord to deter his motion beyond that 6y. So livich.ho feh ik necesiary•Wabierve, 115 W;)e.o his idusle Pi had given notice of his mo tion for the 27th init.:it might have ,tee. ed from what then felt.froni the Noble Lord s lhat he would have con6enied to defer it a few days longer. ASESSED-TAXt:S. The order of the Day was next'read for the se',, CCPI .1 rewling of the Assessed Taxes Bill, wh t ;ii it ..i;rued to postpone dye iliscusi4ou alba Bill till I:tamiby next, when it would br read a third tulle, ttci titat the Bill he committed to.tuor row: iNimrrmrihrr HILL C)e4.ler of the Day wa3.tor Mouse to 140 ilito a Conf.tlittoo upon thi bciug L, 7 • r0 , ,;13 to r q-stateitil Ohjeftions to the p;ii, ft t', ,, t to alter the law of the land :Vii horn any y, by. that alterati:m the C on _ •,:i, awl a l irid4o the lib2rti:,e, 01 • the stthjo.(A. , i 1 irttport,tut eothequencei attending :1 v, orLt had beon • or a sinOe (lefecteiloitned out t',l? thit , i)redent ; re.ttedy amt.- conkt*?..t:‘. 111Viti L (1Vd iitrt)l3;o3" the it ieverai Bills,. such •' 1:11 for the better r&, ii Sec - - RililblAl, aii(l IttPiha)4ll ti.iture 1 .;1 1 ,), el•ttl'sei er found which trcite'. i!1 u.. the trial 0: ,a t►e i)resetit to do. As to • it fr.tined, itothili;;coolcl be, ,1111 ; it •A:1, • It %t t);q11;e. Yet t! dotnititution, to rovere, be tmyty heh,..9leq Ork those .11 I.„;.tdx, or a iNt..)hle i , l r. ,, • the attention of their Lord, !;11.),i, thon - th.., ; lo tilled, that every bench .1) ;11‘2 in the hanic sfrititt as,Lotd the 601, afit . which the flotet6 di iHw. motion Int . into a (.:',onnttittce; t11)s tr,,I;iII.WEi were— lii—Non-Coptc;pts G. U I U II(),' .; ~` ..; L'.: ob' eo IV .4.1 4 r O.N S . ;JF...!,..DAY, ;1-14. foii,e Inttt tom. oclock, a nc l 1170ceoded 111,pieLlimely to tor ki COlllllll tte!o " t(1 !ry tl; of ' the S4hdvicht;let.tion. . !I. alnyttute..4to tii 01 * ,41101 - n only , t • cr , %t ‘lw Adtryguit.. kva, (It c4(.lr,e, 011, , i (by), when titc k3lilUt will tatie 1 , 1;14:A.; Milll,S. • " V. 11,1.0 I I) labl in, I Waterf.ird, t-4 cottenburio, , • 3 IVat,.:ric.td: I.lticr O'4If,,C)CK, <4 - : , 4 1 " ~' ~~' „/..'~.~vJ r .. .. v„.,, , a THE •S Yj SOLi:M QUIS DICLRE rALsum AuLLAI? L 0 N 1) 0 N, WEDNESDAY, MAY 2 1808. The Townsitend Packet has arrived at Falmouth, with Mail froin Malta and Gibraltar. The intelligence -flom Gibraltar is of considerable importance:l3ooNA. . PATE, in pursuance of his plan of effecting the entire subjugation of Spain, gave directions to his Troops. to strip all the Spanish Arsenals, and te send the • arms .and stores to Franee; and to' disartri all e the Inhabitants it .appears that, :the French Troops, in'.the execution of those • orders, have • met with the most determined resistance. In Ma (kid all the 'French Troops that were quarter ed in the City, to the amount' of . 10,00 y men, are said 'to have been massacred'; but 'Mettler - hav ing. advanced with 20,000 'men' that wAre en , camped the vicinity 'of that Capital, for Ce d. his way into the City, and a- most dreadful scene of Carnage: ensiled. We are not in . possession . *of the date wizen tills event took place, and, we are. inclined to think that it was on * the 2,d of May, of which extracted an 'account' from the French Papers, and upon that occasion Oxpressed an opinion that the slaughter oldie French must have been very considerable. The accounts which had reached "Gibraltar from different parts of Spain, concurred in stating that the people scented al most unanimous in their determination to resist the French. In Cadiz the most violent ferment prevailed, and the animosity, of the inhabitants Against the French was so great that vast numbers of the latter Were compelled to take refuge on board the Ships of War lying in the Harbour. .13UONAPART had pre ! . vaited upon the Duke DE MEDINA Cer.t, and about fourteen of the principal Nobility, and several 'Archbishops and BishopS, to gti to Bayonne, where they will, we hate t,io doubt,-be - detaincd. as hos. tages. These accounts front Gibraltar are perfectly in unison with shoe which had reachetl our Squadron otfCadiz. The intelliglnice from Malta is unimport ant ;‘, every thing was perfectly tranquil,,and the Garrison in good health. The private Letters brought by this Packet, will not be delimed till to-morrow. IT is with much concern we tind that the subjea of the Irish Roman Catholic Petition is to be 04 day brought into dileuit4lOn in •the House of Com mom. We are at a 1031 to discover why hove, who during the late Adminktration, 'were ;,0 loixious to L prevail:Upon toe y ( atholtcs not to petition flarlio. merit,' should now be desirous. to bring the subjeii into discussion, They certainly are not encouraged by hopes of success, and we cannot for a moment suppose. that any .Member of either Hone of Parl4... mem, at least, could bring forward this Con •merely for the put pose of einharrassi'ng Majesty's Ministers, and of exciting discon .tents among the Catholics of Ireland. It is per feetly well known, that when Mr. Fok was in Administration, he earnestly deprecated rite dkcus sion (Otitis question, and exerted all hislAuence in Irehind to prevent the 'Catholics from petitioning; and he suceeeded. We ate, therefore, we repeat, utterly at•a loss to coneeive : with, what view any Marl realty anxious . to promote the• welfare• of the Empire, can now wish for the agitation - of the sub- 7 lject. • We ace convinced that if the Catholics of Ireland were left to the exercise of their. own good souse, if they. had not been urged and st , inulated try designing men, they would *not e u n d er the present circumstances, have Presented. this Peti' tion. Tuere has• been during the Present reign an uninterrurted series of concessions to them almost the whole of the disabilites under which they la -bottled Wye been removed, and -. they .are-now en tirely upon a foiiting with 'their Protestant Vellow- Subjects, with the exception of the right of sitting in Parliament, and or holding about Thirty Oakes. To talk, therefore 4 of Emancipation, is absurd. , It is very natural .that BIJONArART2 should endeavrrar 10 infuse discontents into the Catholics, of Ireland his Mativi'i', is ObViollS ; but they will not, wt are snre, give much , credit to his pafessionsof synt- PhY , when they consider his conduct to the Head Of their iti , lig;on.-w hen they behold an aged and vonttrahic Potiiiti treated with every degree of in-' Solt, stripped of his imperial power, and detained .ss a Vrisouet own capital. We do not wish to enlarge upon this stltliett at present 4 arid shall 0;ily express gut hope, that as the subject is to be di ewised, it will be diicussecl With temper, and.witli uut any mixture a party feeltug• Mr.iAnAtit Clad n inters iew this morning with Mr. C . AINNING, in I)owning.street. y t .,t,r(ily morning his - MAJESTY, the..Dtike of Pfinceo..ei Au USIA, Sornt,i,, and 1., lA , accompatliNi ecitmt MI% Bt,it:Elt.RY and' :LADY, Genorats F L ; yaw l , an GAnTIT, 14)6k all Airkog'oni;holUblOct ia11,4301" GINt Park.' NAVAL NEWS. ~. From the LONDON GAziras,•Afi v $4. Admiralty-Office, May 24, 1809. A Letter has been received by the El,m. Welle4ley Pole, from Mr. lehn..Kinsuaaa,„Cora— rnander of the. Adive Excise Cutter, dated at Fal mouth, the 19th instant, stating that, on the- i,71h,, he had captured in the said Cutter, after a chat ofj seine hours, the Deux Freres Frenca Privateer, Of- St. Maloes, armed with two carriage-guns, and manned with twenty-nine men. She had been - out - foul days, and had taken two Vessels, one of which was retaken, by the Active, and the other by tl* Betsy Privateer of Plymouth. PLYMOUTH, MAY 23.---Arrived the Itripetueua., of So guns, from off L'Orient ; the Swallow and Intet ligent Brigs from Liverpool, with seamen for Fleet; the Cockatrice Sloop of War, with a convoy from the Downs ; and the Alligator and , Growler Sloop of War from a cruize. Sailed the Bellerophon, Pompee, Gil•raliar, and Di:fiance Men of War to join the Channel Fleet. Ar?Lved La Seine Frigate anct`Pluver Sloop of War from a cruize. Sailed the Scorpion Sloop of War for Liverpool._ The Lion Privateer of this Port, has been cap tured on the coast of France by a parcel of Gun boats; the Captain and crew made`•their escape on board an / English Ship in the offing, and are artired here. Arrived the American Schooner Mohawk, from Belfast, in ballast, and the Portuguese Ship dimizatie, from St. Michael's, with fruit, for London. Went out of harbour this morning, and anchored in the Sound, the Acorn Sloop of War. The Seine Frigate is come into harbour to refit. PoNTSMOUTH, MAY e4.--Arrived L'Espiegle 807 of War, with a Convoy from the Westward. The Maisters, AR QHRR, ELLBAN4, Emily, Thames, -, and. Catherine, Tor Guernsey, frOcrt the Downs, tire put into St. Helen's Roads. - Sailed the Resiciarice Frigate, Capt. ADAtir; far the Mecliterealican. . . The ' Hardy Gun-brig, Lieut. PgRDILEA.II, tilke9 Convoy tp the ;,Downs, and will. sail early in Lhe morning, if the wind be fair. . . . , SHEER,I4SS, MAY 2;3.—Passed by for Gotten ;burgh,. having on board the sob4.ly for the King of ; Sw:nitri, his MajQ! , ,ty's Ship Clyde, of 36 guns, Cotit (nod ore w Arrived `from the 'River the .Deptford Tchder, Lie:ltoant ANTRAM, with ,imprest inert and vo !officers for the Fl Let. Wcnt lruli the Little to the Great NOre the Trumpouse Sloop, of 18 gain, Capt. Dot.t.iNio. Arrked his Majesty's Ships klalabar, Aggreaar, and La lienorpmde from Dezil. Several Sail i$ arrived below the Noce, for the River. DEAL, MAY .24,..--Ar'rived His Majesty's Ship Brunswick ow& sailed to it he -Nortitward; Sailed the Endymion for SheerneSs. Arrived the neso4te Gun-brig cram Ireland with a Convoy, which are sailed - for the ItiVer ; also l thi Aliticrpa, BROOKS, frotn the Cipe of Good Hope. FALMOUTH, MAY 22.—Arrived Abe Tozynshend Pa c k c i, yvith Mails frcnn Malta. and Gibraltar, in three weeks from the latter place. Sailed the Humber Armed ship with a convoy Lc. the Downs. Extra& of a Letter from atr Officer on board his Majesty's Ship l'a) tar, dated Leith Roads, Ma 4 y - U We nailed front Leith on,the loth instant to,. cruize off North Bergen' and intercept a frigate saki to be in that harbour. We got on the coast on the If2th, but trtnn the very thick tugs, could nor stand in till the 15th, when we made the islands to the westward of Bergen, and en our hoisting Dutch co lours, there came oil 19 Norwegians in two boats, from WllOlll. we learnt the Frigate Had sidled eight days Wore for the k;ast will) three or ,lour Ships. They took Uk,through it must intricate rocky ,passage, till within five or six miles of Bergen, when they refused to take het 'any further. it being the Captain's intention' to roam the town with the Fri gate, and bring off the Shipping, au or,v,yhieh were three Privateers, we anchored in the Straits, with springs on our cables, and in the oveniug the boats, with the Captain, First and Third Lieutenants; and Master, went up to the.town, and w-ould probably have cut out an E,ast Indianian lying under the bat-. levy, had not suard boat, which was without lie., tell in w ith and fired ,on the launch, who :re- turned the tire, wounding all their people severely, and took her : this"alarmed th- 4 town, who solluired their buglea l anti luaoned 'the batteries; and we finding the Ships lie within a chitin, without tiviiich it would be difficult to get 'them, ,returned to the: Frigate, leaving the launch, commanded by Liente• hillit.,SYk4rs, to . watch the'llneiny. We immedi ately dot the Ship und er we i g h, but from the , , nos of the Wind, and intrieacy of the passage, could not get near Bergen and when about half Way froar our anchorage; in a narrow rocky Strait, without:a breatlt'of wind, and a strong otwent, in this tion we were attacked by a Schooner and five `(.lull: 4, W tio were within halt gun shot, t)ing wider rocky point, ei:h.rnounting twn 44,ppunders, cc , pi the Schooner, and manned .with troops. They' kept .up a well diredted fire, hullitig to in ten or eleven places, and cutting much our • ripiart sails,- One 1,1 their first shots killedour cap% taro, in the at of pointing a gun.„. The service has thus lost a most valuable Commander, who find at (ached the whole of his crew to him, Officers mid men, "by the most kind and exemplary cantina. — Although the force with which we were engaged was ..conapasatiVely , smalli yet-when it-is - known th.it we were, at this time drifting towards the-Enetny, nearly send on, no . wind, a narrow passage full of rocks, .00 ..which ww e ere driving, with no ancliorage, under heights manned by their troops, na guns, to bear on theboats,. and a crew newly impressed, most ot -:Whata had never beenengaged, it niust be confessed tote a situation in which nothing but the greatest exertions on the part of Lieutenant CAIGER (tileß corumanding), and the rest of the Officers, could • relieve her. ; We at length brought our broadside to bear on them one Vessel was sunk, and the rest much shattered. They continued the attack for an .hour' and a halt, .and were 're-manned hy . synall boats during it—at length . a light air sprung up; we wore, atici stood. toivarcilthe Enemy, getting out bow ions *fqrward, which bore on them, and compelled them to bear up, and row under 'the batteries of Bergen, where we found it would not be adviseable to tolltiW, from the general alarm that had been raised. Wa now obliged the natives'on board to attempt a par sage with the Ship to the northward. in prosecuting which we fell in with our launch, Lieut. ST'lss, and picked her up. We passed many difficult pas sages, through which we boom'd the Frigate off with spars,.and towed her; and at three cleared 6* Islands, and -stood out for sea. We. have preserved the body of our heroic Captain, and shall, if possilile, also that of Mr. H, FITZHUGH (a Midshipman), a fine promising youth, who fell at the time the Car fain did. They are the only Itlled ; we have doe man lost his right aria, another severely. wounded , and several slightly. Most of our shot holes Are be -tweet' wind and water, and pus shot struck us two feet under water." - - . . . Captain BETTESWORTH had often distinguished himself by his gallant conduct on former occasions; particularly on the , 4th of. February, 1804, %ail ° Lieutenant of tke Centaur, with• Sir SAsivit. OOP' It! conjunction With Lieutenant R. C. REYNOLDS, Oi time same Ship, he boarded and cut out fivin under Fort Edward, Martinique, Le CurieUx,• of iti guns' In this enterprise -LitUtellant REYNOLDS was kille d ' and his gallant companion so dreadfully cnt and shot in various ?arts, that his recovery was sometime el* tremely dnubtful. For-this achievement be was IV' muted to the rank of Commander, and to the cote ' Aland of theYessel he. had so gallantly captured..OP remained in the West 'lndies, Capturing the Enerni s craizers, until the arrival of Lord NEtSON in ques t of the Toulon Fleet. He was the Officer who , when Commander of the Carieux Brig, brought tlta dispatches from Lord NELSON, when in WSUit ° the e combined Fleet ip the West Indies, in 18 05 on which occasion he was promoted to the raiik , ot Post Captain. Captain IJ'rraswOuTM was !all married to Lady Haxigaiu GREY, sister to Ear. Gltrl4 and had Just fitted out the, Frigate in w hie!! • be has so prematurely lost his valuable life. Ago 28 years. Gifißdth 7411?, MAY 10. Accounts received from Spain. this day confirM, the intelligence hefore received, that art itisurt.ello3. had taken place at Madrid on the 2d of this s nionth ,, Which, after much bloodshed,' was• with difficult/ quelled by the joint efforts of the Regent DoN Abia TOI , IIO . and the, Gratid,Dake of Bette. The lare We have not been able to learn coirealy, trot". the confused and in. some respetts con.radietery counts that have reached us. We have eill , I ' lll * able to ascertain that the ferment arose front oil al ) ", prehension entertained by the people that t) 1I 1) 04 King•would nne be restored to them, but be ed by the French emperor.., Assuranceit calcula t e to quiet ilieSe teit were breed to the people nett' by the Regent and the French Colutriander, but ti ' t3 ~piecise terms they made use of we cannot asi - e thila trim the accounts that have reached us. , Sonte of ese th State, that pron*es. were given diet FLoP P irAl.a) should speedily return ; others that til e sutances embraced generally the safety of the ;1 , v • Royal Family. • All the letters agree, in stating that the indig.Xr3 tied of the Spaniards at the invasion of their countir 'byi r the French, is general throughout the Njogdl s and that it will be difficult to repress the Pl ust ' indignation from bursting out in acts 'which', its the present circumstanc e s, e au only bring elO tr— i i riion upon the people. , In every quarter retort ate expressed at the ports of Spain .noc having b ;i gefi t f opened to the British on the first breaking °"„' „„ the Revolution. Sonic accounts state, that the'""ii gent hat; 'stated to the Grand Duke of ktgao) tha t ;" he first tymptom of bad faith en the part ot , Frei), h, the sea-ports and arsenals will be, itr m diately put into the p o s se ssion o f the British; 17a this is hot credited. 44 , _ ti4 O ti l s N N ll IG O T tl o ty a r e r i v r e ed n w th i l l E .su a r r , i and Counte" ;t utuu MAJ hfiTLES. • Yesterday the Noble i E m a i r b l or t . ook leave E 'TIES, PrcYltitlS to iliS for ture Dublin' w Conbiess remain, at , Yesterday 11101 . 13416' Duke of KANT rel./Wi l c o the King's own or Royel Stafford' .Militia, in itie Park, Windsor. , *Yesterday the Duke of CAMnnu Ga ljt WiI )JSQT for. London. • F'heCH AN CELLOII of - the EXCH MOIR, We tind sr -stand, los fixed bea Frid:ry next tore meeting with Ord f theds, of the monied interest, on the w i ll -.4eensuing 1 4 030. its amount only, we believe. ,a he Settled. oil that 4,v,, and another ineettl4 - take place on Monday for finally adjuiting ter`lif, :14 is reported that the loan. will be' ititogOW ten for the service of Gnat 13riutloi 11/ ' two for Ireland. jliti This forenoon part of the Tower Hamlets ki i ll; lii ttre ile ; t i t ter itr e o t ti o g i ll t ieq. be wl 'e rt iy, on e t red. ‘their w ay toltutei t4P VOe I ire ,illutos Frig atelost, of 22 guns, Capt. PO' fro, r4 l. ‘'t to s;iy, ha , b een lost in the Guipti of ~*zo. The crew, however, have been saved. . Its expetted that at the Review which is- t( 3 , `` ne , pl‘itv On the Curragh of Kildare, on the Ist Of 4 t o there will be apwardsOlk!.s,ooo troops adti 3 g i 3ll s4tue plain in- one solid body.. -°~,~,